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The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of…
The glorious kingdom of Christ, described and clearly vindicated against the bold asserters of a future calling and reign of the Jews, and 1000 years before the conflagration and the asserters of the 1000 years kingdom after the conflagration : opening the promise of the new heaven and earth and the everlastingness of Christ's kingdom against their debasing it, who confine it to 1000 years ... : answering Mr. Tho. Beverley ... in his twelve principles and catechisms, &c. / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by T. Snowden for Thomas Parkhurst, 1691
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Chapter 2: An unwilling Answer to Mr. Tho. Beverleys Twelve Principles, and his Catechism of the M…
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Or as a Physician that hath an Hospital or infected City to cure, giveth up that work when it is perfectly finished: So Christ giveth up the Kingdom of Redemption when he hath done that work. 2. But this Giving up is no deposing of Christ, nor is he less, but more gloriously King than before. Nor is God the Father any more King than before. It's no diminution to Christs Royalty, nor any addition to the Fathers. I shall prove this before I go further.
§ 20. 1. By comparing this Text with Joh. 5. 22. The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son:] And yet the Father Governeth no less than he did before, and is not deposed by giving up all Government to the Son: Only the quality of the Subject, and the terms of his Government are altered. Creation is in Scripture eminently ascribed to the Father, and Redemption to the Son. The Father as Creator Governed Man in his Integrity, to preserve and perfect him: Man being fallen into sin and misery, the Son as Redeemer Governeth Man as a Physician his Patients, in order to his cure. The Father now judgeth no Man as sinless according to the Law of Innocency, but hath committed the Government of all to the Son as his Administrator and Physician, in order to their cure. This is but altering the way of Government. And it is the Subjects of the Kingdom that are called The Kingdom, who are now restored, and delivered up to the Father, without blemish, spot or wrinkle, that he may henceforth Govern them as a perfectly healed People, according to the Law of Perfection.
§ 20. 1. By comparing this Text with Joh. 5. 22. The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all Judgment to the Son:] And yet the Father Governeth no less than he did before, and is not deposed by giving up all Government to the Son: Only the quality of the Subject, and the terms of his Government are altered. Creation is in Scripture eminently ascribed to the Father, and Redemption to the Son. The Father as Creator Governed Man in his Integrity, to preserve and perfect him: Man being faln into sin and misery, the Son as Redeemer Governeth Man as a Physician his Patients, in order to his cure. The Father now judgeth no Man as sinless according to the Law of Innocency, but hath committed the Government of all to the Son as his Administrator and Physician, in order to their cure. This is but altering the way of Government. And it is the Subjects of the Kingdom that are called The Kingdom, who are now restored, and delivered up to the Father, without blemish, spot or wrinkle, that he may henceforth Govern them as a perfectly healed People, according to the Law of Perfection.